I started this scrap project to use up strips in January. It was kind of inspired by the 1600 jelly roll quilts I saw on line. I figured I had plenty of strips already cut, so why buy a jelly roll. I stuck with mainly blues and greens and just strung them together in long, long strips. I decided to work with value---what a surprise---keeping the lights together in rows and darks in rows placed on the outside. I just kept adding rows and sewing until I ran out of long enough strips. This finished up 48 " by 68".
Time to quilt it.....and get it finished.
I showed the quilting I used on the center in my last post. When I got to the border, I used something different. In the book, Freemotion Quilting by Judy Woodworth, I saw this variation on meandering. She referred to it as echo meandering. I like it and tried it here. It gives a great texture that reminds me of tree bark.
Binding.........I used up almost every short piece of blue that I had left over. I probably used 15 different fabrics on the binding. The entire quilt is a perfect Waste Not project.
Happy stitching.
4 comments:
Very pretty.
That is so pretty.....I like them a little more planned than the jelly roll race anyway.
It is a very pretty quilt and I appreciate the information about another reference on a freemotion quilting resource. Good stash buster too!
This is the best of any that I've seen and I think it's because of the way you've used your lights and darks. Very impressive.
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